1 year old has no interest in drinking

My one year old has been fighting me on liquids for 6 months now. I had hoped that once she was done with formula it would get better but it hasn't. It's not so much what is in the bottle or cup but seems to be the bottle or cup itself. She doesn't want a bottle, she doesn't want a sippy cup. We are trying a cup with a straw now but it's not looking good. The only way to get her to "drink" is to take an adult straw and plug up on end to get liquid in it and give it to her. I have only resorted to that a handful of times out of desperation. I am taking her for her check up soon but I wanted to know if anyone had had issues with something like this before.

I realize this is an old post but I'm having the same issues with my almost 14month old...been going on for about a month now. I'm really concerned. ped says it's a phase but how long should it last.he doesn't want to drink out of any vessel.

I nurse but my DS wasn't able to take liquids out of any non-breast vessel (for lack of a better term...) until about 15 months. He didn't have the oral motor skills. You might try an open cup. Tiny, tiny amounts to avoid a huge mess, but he actually figured out open cups before anything else. Straws came next. We never did sippies with either kid, just one more thing to wean off of.

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